Friday Night Lights : A Town, a Team, and a Dream

by Bissinger, H. G.

• ISBN13: 9780306814259
• ISBN10: 0306814250
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-28
• Publisher: Da Capo Pr

Summary

The classic, best-selling story of life in the football-driven town of Odessa, Texas, with a new afterword that looks at the players and the town ten years later

Author Biography

H.G. Bissinger has won the Pulitzer Prize, the Livingston Award, the National Headliner Award, and the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel for his reporting. The author of the highly acclaimed A Prayer for the City, he has written for the television series NYPD Blue and is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He lives in Philadelphia.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Prologue	p. 1
Pre-Season
Odessa	p. 23
The Watermelon Feed	p. 38
Boobie	p. 53
The Season
Dreaming of Heroes	p. 73
Black and White	p. 89
The Ambivalence of Ivory	p. 111
School Days	p. 128
East Versus West	p. 153
Friday Night Politics	p. 173
Boobie Who?	p. 194
Push for the Playoffs
Sisters	p. 211
Civil War	p. 233
Heads or Tails	p. 251
Post-Season
Friday Night Addiction	p. 267
The Algebraic Equation	p. 291
Field of Dreams	p. 313
Epilogue	p. 339
Afterword	p. 357
Acknowledgments	p. 364
List of Illustrations	p. 365
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